The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-02-03

81 ,OUO at the ena OF his first ten
years of farming has q pretty sure
foundation for competence, not so
much in the dollars at his disposal
as in the knowledge of men, aud
the world, and their ways, which he
has acquired by his experience in
making the dollars. There are q
thousand lessons, of the first i'm
portance of life, that we all must
learn by experience. We will never
get them in any other school, and
we will never make life a success
in any business without them.
We assume that farmer has a
wife. If he has not he should cup
ply the deficiency as soon as he can
find the proper and available mate
rial to make one OF. She should
be educated; but her GROWING &C.
complishment should be well-train-
ed, practical common sense. She
should be queen Of the domestic es-
tablishment, and reign IN person,
whoever may be her subordinates.
So the farmer should be the sover
eign of the outdoor realm, person
ally experimenting everything and
not deeming it compromise of his
dignity to do much of the work
with his own hands. But the two
sovereigns should hold numerous
cabinet councils so as to maintain
a perfect unity in the policy of the
two domains. The man should have
a correct knowledge of the domestic
economy, both in the larder and in
the wardrobe; and on the other
hand prudent, sensible wife is en-
titled to know the condition of the
farm finances Its liabilities and its
income that she may order the do
nestle expenses to correspond.
There is an old adage ''that a wo-
man can throw out with a teaspoon
faster than a man can throw in
with a shovel" Whatever truth
there may be in this adage is prob
ably the result of the wife being
kept in ignorance of the finances OF
the farm. All the important ques-
tons in relation to things on the
} farm or in the house should be
settled by mutual counsel and ad
vice, thus demonstrating that "twc
} heads are butter than one"
The besetting sin of American
financiering is an Indifference t.
small expenses, and farmers are no
entirely exempt from it.. There i.
J frequently a carelessness, If not ,
wastefulness, about the farm tha
} would astonish a prudent merchan
or mechanic. Frequently the whea
crop is suffered to remain in shocl
month waiting for the thrashins
machine to come around. Mean
while the waste by weather and BY
other casualties amounts to twic
the cost of stacking it. We fire.
quently see corn left in the fielt
; till Christmas, liable to loss equa
toaten per cent. Of the crop.
careful saving Of these and simila
: losses would largely swell the an
r nual profit of the farm. A constan
looking after small expenses an,
, losses is necessary if we would
make farming pay. A strict econo
my in the expenses of the far an,
, house, limiting these to the pur
chase of articles of necessity AM
t utility, is essential to success il
any business that gives but
small margin of profit, and this i
t the present condition of farming
l But this prudent economy shout,
: never be allowed to degenerate int
such parsimony as would depriv
the farm and the house of the hes
e implements and labor saving ma
chlnery, nor into the habit of pur
< chasing infefior things, because the
: are cheap, or because they are of
} fered on credit.
1t may not be amiss here 70 eau
3 ton young farmers against the dan
ger of a few successful seasons i
their business, injecting them wit
mania for getting rich. This in
lection has ruined many a farme
who, but for it, might have bee
A prosperous and happy through life
f A happy and useful life does nc
e depend on the abundance of tn
things possessed, but rather on GU
! ability to circumscribe and &c
: strain our inordinate desires.-Ir
a diana Farmer.